Phylicia Rashad Quotations

The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.

When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.